Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

We said

And his brother

General references

Bible References

We said

Genesis 49:8
"Judah, thy brethren shall praise thee, and thine hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies, and thy father's children shall stoop unto thee.

A child

Genesis 35:18
Then as her soul was departing, that she must die: she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis 37:3
And Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he begat him in his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
Genesis 43:7
And they said, "The man asked us of our kindred saying, 'Is your father yet alive? Have ye not another brother?' And we told him according to these words. How could we know that he would bid us bring our brother down with us?"
Genesis 46:21
The children of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard.

And his brother

Genesis 37:33
And he knew it, saying, "It is my son's coat: a wicked beast hath devoured him, and Joseph is rent in pieces."
Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said unto them, "Me have ye robbed of my children: Joseph is away, and Simeon is away, and ye will take Benjamin away. All these things fall upon me."

He alone

Genesis 44:27
Then said thy servant our father unto us, 'Ye know that my wife bare me two sons.
Luke 7:12
When he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, which was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and much people of the city was with her.

General references

Numbers 1:36
Among the children of Benjamin, their generation, in their kindreds and houses of their fathers - by the tale of names, from twenty years and above of all that were mete for war -